New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-29
VAR BETWEEN REAGIN And JEFF DAVIS.
THE SENATOR ACCUSED OF INTRODUCING. A NEGRO

THE SENATOR ACCUSED OF INTRODUCING, A NEGRO
TO LADIES AND GESTLEMEN"
GALVESTON. Tex. Sept % DISQUALIFICATION Davis
and his old lieutenant. John II. REAGAN now United
States Senator from Texas Just ct present varying
the monoony Of their historical by engaging
little personal quarrel over the
Prohibition question. Senator Reagan took ex-
cspton time TO Mr. Davis putting
In his the eleventh hour In the Prohibition cam
paign OF Texas by writing letter to Ex-Governor FRANK
Lubbock taking grounds againstthe adcponof the
then pending prohibition amendment Mr. Davis attacked
the pvoposed on high Constitutional grounds
This argument Reagan. in irate phlippc. declared
encouraging drunkenness and all Its accompanying
vices Reagan expressed Surprise and sorrow
because Mr.. Davis wrote his now famous letter 70
Ex-Governor Lubbock and charged that 1t went long
way toward accou nting the large majority against
prohibition In Texas.
RAasans "surprise and sorrow" had the eject Of
aronsing that old vtndicanveness for which Jefferson
Davis celebrated and he turns In scathng sarcasm
upon his friend Of forty years, and In recent
Communication to TIE Houston Post, replying to
Reagan's structures. he tauntingly asks: whence
arose the sorrow Might reasonably have supposed
that had equal right express opinion upon the a.
fairs Of Texas that accorded to Georgia negro VINO
imported by party to influence the voters OF his
color, and who, 1t reported had been, at one or
public meetings. introduced by you TO the ladies
and gentlemen Of Texasf"
and Judge Reagan hastsns to repe the hddeA
suit In AN open letter Mr. Davis published by me
Houston Posi- this morning Tho Senator. among other
things says 'You refer to the fact that introduced
Georgia negro who hal been imported to influence the
voters OF his race, at one or more puohc
meetings to the ladies and gentlemen OF Texas
az n II were q disreputable act. did, at q
public meeting-and only oBein my town, at the re-
quest OF others when I was taking no
active part in the canvass Introduce 2
negro speaker to an audience OF white a1d
black people as respectable any others OF
their CLASSES elsewhere and that delivered an al
dress which would. for learning eoquence and patriot
isu done credit to white speaker. and doing
ought bring upon me reproAch
from any one. and especially from one for whom
showed my readiness lay down my life In the Tune or
peril and dangers" Mr. Davis sncerlngiy
tainted Reagan with holding different views
the subject OF prohibition two years
ago and before he elected Senator.
To this the Sage of Palestine replies that examinaon
Of que tion caused him 20 do what s never agree
able and what many. IL Is prostned 90 no,
have the to do-to declare mysoh against my
former expressed opinion"
Essgan his old chef tender spot wien nc
says will suppose that the coincidence OF your
letter Governor bbock being written on the eve OF
the election in Texas and your recent letter 10
nae on the Of the Tennessee election was inc
result OF your own design" ,,
These hut few OF TIE various fhruss passeu 20
tween these celebrated old Their exhaustive argu
ments, pro and COR upon the question OF prohiDbou
from purely constitutional standpoint are prosonhco
By critics the sbcst paolie letters tha nave
from any southeruers pen for twenty years